For posterity: I believe this to be a bug in debootstrap that was caused by an update to the ubuntu-keyring package [1] that received no corresponding update to the debootstrap 'configuration' files [2].
To summarize:
- This affects Ubuntu <= 12.04 chroots on Ubuntu >= 17.04 hosts.
- The best workaround that I know of is the following command:
For posterity: I believe this to be a bug in debootstrap that was caused by an update to the ubuntu-keyring package [1] that received no corresponding update to the debootstrap 'configuration' files [2].
To summarize:
- This affects Ubuntu <= 12.04 chroots on Ubuntu >= 17.04 hosts.
- The best workaround that I know of is the following command:
sudo debootstrap --keyring= /usr/share/ keyrings/ ubuntu- archive- removed- keys.gpg precise /tmp/precise http:// old-releases. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/
The important bit is the non-default --keyring argument.
[1] https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubuntu- keyring/ +bug/1363482 /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubuntu- keyring/ +bug/1363482/ comments/ 7
[2] https:/